Undergraduate students in Pennsylvania are invited to apply now for Explore Law, a tuition-free five-day program in University Park that gives students the chance to meet attorneys, take classes and "reach a verdict" on the legal profession.

Air Force friends and former next-door neighbors Kate Boyd and Joshua Hanna are looking forward to seeing each other at Penn State’s fall commencement on Dec. 21. While living on Guam, both students earned their bachelor’s degrees online through Penn State’s World Campus.

Penn State Law is offering its first online program through the World Campus. The Professional Certificate in U.S. Business and Constitutional Law will prepare legal professionals trained outside the United States to understand the U.S. common law system, so they can practice law in the United States or work with U.S. clients or multinational companies.

Episode Two of World on Trial examines whether U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are a violation of international human rights law. The mock trial was filmed at Penn State Law in University Park on June 26. Presiding over the trial was Judge James E. Baker of the U.S.

Joseph Sestak, former congressman and retired U.S. Navy three-star admiral, has been named as the 2013-14 recipient of the General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership. While in residence, Sestak will conduct classes at Dickinson College, the U.S. Army War College and the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law and School of International Affairs.

Penn State Law is hosting a screening of "The Memphis 13: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement's Smallest Pioneers" at 5 p.m. Feb. 11, in the Greg Sutliff Auditorium, Lewis Katz Building, University Park, and the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle, Pa. The public is welcome and a discussion will follow in both locations.

The film features interviews with 13 African-American students who, in 1961, walked into what had been an all-white school in Memphis, Tenn. The documentary also includes interviews with their families as well as students, teachers and leaders who lived through the experience.

What is the role judicial review when a party to arbitration seeks to vacate the arbitrator's award? What is the role of the courts when an unhappy party seeks to set aside a mediated agreement? Top scholars of dispute resolution will examine these questions and more on Feb. 22 at Penn State Law. "The Role of the Courts: Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards and Mediated Settlement Agreements" has been approved for 4 CLE credits and will be live in Carlisle, PA, and University Park, PA.

Children are among the most vulnerable parties in the legal system and often lack legal counsel, especially in an immigration context. On behalf of client Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and as part of their work at the Center for Immigrants' Rights, Penn State Law students (now attorneys) Nick Quesenberry, 2011 graduate, and Tayler Summers, 2012 graduate, helped create training materials on U and T Visas. Their contribution became part of a recently finalized training manual for pro bono attorneys who take on cases through KIND.

Liliana M. Garces, counsel of record for the amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Social Science Researchers in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, will speak at noon on Monday, Oct. 1, in the Garden Room of the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on Penn State's University Park campus.

Having finished U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School and one year of law school, Nicole Anderson, has another challenge in mind: learning Mandarin Chinese in eight months. As a 2012-13 Boren Fellow at National Taiwan University, she will get that chance.

The Kiev University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine awarded an honorary doctor of laws to Professor William E. Butler along with V.V. Dudintsev, former prime minister of Ukraine. The ceremony took place on April 13.

Hollywood creates attorneys who seem to have it all: Ivy League pedigrees, amazing wardrobes and the unfailing ability to enthrall a courtroom and to articulate their cases. Penn State Abington and the Walnut Street Theatre have created an original continuing legal education program to teach attorneys the physical and mental techniques that actors successfully employ. "Taking the Stage at America's Oldest Theatre: How Acting Skills Can Make You a Better Advocate" will be held on Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Center City Philadelphia theater.

"Immigration and the Law" is the topic when Penn State York's First Friday Series continues for fall at noon on Friday, Nov. 11, in the Community Room of the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center on campus. The program is free and open to the public and takes place later in the month due to a scheduling conflict.

Craig Trebilcock, local attorney specializing in immigration law, will share his thoughts on immigration and law and what's happening in York County. Trebilcock joined the firm of Shumaker Williams P.C., in 2006 and chairs the immigration section. His clients include individuals such as physicians, corporations and small United States businesses seeking specialized workers.